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Confession of a graying metalhead; The right way to end a very long day.
Topic Started: Apr 8 2012, 01:58 AM (243 Views)
subvet
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I got off work an hour ago and we got beat up again. They were trying new processes and new products and of course without training for the operators so once again maintenance is putting out one fire after another in an effort to keep everything moving.

Anyway after I punch the clock and get in my truck the radio comes on and I hear a tasty old favorite of mine "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" by Judas Priest which brings a smile to my face as I put the truck into drive keeping time on the steering wheel.
The final chords of the song are fading and the next cut on is another tune to get the blood pumping, "Easy Living" by Uriah Heep. Bigger smile, start doing a little drum beat on the steering wheel now and my head is bobbing just a bit.

Entering town now with the windows down when the opening chords of "Enter Sandman" by Metallica come out of my speakers which I now turn up to 11 (if you're reading this you have seen "This is Spinal Tap" and know what I mean) and start doing some serious air drumming. At a stop light the driver in the next car wants to know what station I'm listening to, and I let him know it's 97.1 WDRV Chicago, he tunes it in and he had a LOUD setup in his car so it was good!

Got to my turn for the home stretch and just as I'm pulling up to my house the DJ starts playing "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who--and I'm in a quandary: go in the house or listen to the greatest head banging, air guitar, air drumming song ever written....so I sit.

Now mind you, I'm 59 years old, I have 3 children in their 30s and here I am listening to this great song as loud as my speakers will handle it, at 1130 at night in a residential area. The song comes to the part where all you hear is the organ playing chords in the middle when the great Keith Moon comes in with his drums and the pace quickens and the maniacal drumming builds until Roger Daltrey lets out the blood curdling scream that all other singers try for and never can equal.
Pete Townsend flies in with his guitar, and all this time I'm drumming like a madman banging my head and playing my air guitar.

Then Roger sings the close, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" I do my best Pete Townsend windmills to his final chords and it's done and I realize I was still in the front seat of my truck, in the dark, all alone.
I must never do this again, I must act my age, what would the neighbors think....especially my next door neighbor. The Captain on the city police force neighbor.........ahhh, forget them. It's only rock and roll!


I'm tired, but I pick up my lunchbox smiling, walk in the house and realize the day didn't suck so bad after all. I'm almost retirement age but I'll be a headbanger until the very end.

Good night everyone
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Never act your age. Acting your age is for suckers. Always act exactly how you want to act. Never utter or think the phrase "I'm too old for this," because you never are.

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Don't feel bad. I've done that...more than once. My wife eventually would open the door and wonder what I was doing. Now I just leave the garage door closed and don't pull the car in until I've finished listening to whatever the song of the moment is. Good stuff and a great way to separate the grind of the day from the rest of my day. The body ages, not the mind.
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Sometimes having the right songs on the radio on your way to or from work can be all the difference. I finally gave up on my local stations and use TuneIn Radio on my cell phone, plug into my stereo and pull up stations from all over the world. Life is much better.
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Music is the greatest thing on earth for the very reason you described. Sometimes the perfect song at the perfect time reminds you that, holy $h!t, what a beautiful day it is to be alive. I'm 32 and my father just retired. He and my mother just got back to Canada after spending about 2 months at their place in Phoenix. So I drive to their place yesterday for a bbq dinner, and there is my mom and dad sitting on the back patio enjoying some drinks in the sun, slowly bbq'ing ribs on the grill, and rocking the F out to some Eric Clapton, The Who, Led Zeppelin, etc and I took in every moment. Hoping that when I'm their age, I still have that passion and energy to enjoy your favorite music to it's fullest. That's what rock n' roll was made for. No need to feel awkward about the situation with the fact that you (or we) are aging. We're always going to be the same person we were when we enjoyed that music the first time we heard it. I look at that as a beautiful thing. Rock on, soldier!
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TuneIn is awesome.
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I'm with ya, Sub. I'm 52 going on 30.

BTW, Green Manalishi was originally played by Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac. Its a song about his struggle with Heroin addiction.
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Apr 9 2012, 02:14 AM
I'm with ya, Sub. I'm 52 going on 30.

BTW, Green Manalishi was originally played by Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac. Its a song about his struggle with Heroin addiction.
I am with all three of you coming in at 53 and loving every tune you mentioned.

I have a 30 minute walk to work each way so I usually fire up the IPOD and zone out on the walk usually trying to squeeze in jewels like Motor City Madhouse from Nugent to Bad Motor Scooter from Montrose to Never Been Any Reason by Head East, Hair of the Dog by Nazareth, GNR's Paradise City... Also newer stuff like Running Wild by the Aussie rockers Airbourne (who remind me a lot of ACDC).
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Warhorse, I always thought it was interesting that Priest and Mac had that song in common, and both versions were great!
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Unwritten rule : never leave your vehicle before the song is over.
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Been there many times. My wife finally comes out to the garage and screams at me because the dog has been barking since she heard my car pull in.

One of my best concert memories (and there are many) was taking my dad to see the Priest (one of his favorite bands) a few years ago. We were center stage, second row. One of Glenn's picks just missed us. :rockon:
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